Beginnings

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and up-and-coming comedians, musicians, writers and artists about their earliest creative acts and about other formative childhood experiences.

On today's episode
I talk to filmmakers and musicians Brocker and Chapman Way.
Originally from Thousand Oaks, CA, Brocker and Chapman, along with
their third brother MacLain, are responsible for the wonderful
documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball, as well
as the six part Emmy Award-winning documentary Wild Wild...

On today's episode I talk to musician and rapper Nnamdi
Ogbonnaya. The child of Nigerian immigrants, Nnamdi mostly grew up
in Chicago, where he has been a member of the DIY music underground
for many years. This includes drumming in bands like Monobody
and Ittō, playing bass in groups like Nervous Passenger and...

On today's episode I talk to actress Becky Thyre. Originally
from Louisiana, Becky got her real start in theater in Chicago.
Eventually moving to Los Angeles, she's acted and lent her vocal
talents to a number of amazing shows and films including PCU, The
Oblongs, Six Feet Under, The Sarah Silverman Program, Parks...

On today's episode I talk to musician Maria Taylor. Originally
from Birmingham, AL, Maria's been playing music for a majority of
her life. Her first band, Little Red Rocket, which she formed with
Orenda Fink as a teenager, was signed to Geffen in the mid-'90s and
eventually morphed into Azure Ray. As Azure Ray, Maria...

On today's episode I talk to stand-up and actress Amber Nelson.
Born in Saudi Arabia and raised mostly in Louisiana, Amber has been
performing comedy for many years, as both a stand-up and a sketch
performer on numerous house teams at UCB as well as as a member of
one of the best sketch groups of the last decade...

About the Podcast

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).